MorphicDebuggingTips
Last updated at 1:33 pm UTC on 16 January 2006
See also Debugging UI
You can have Morphic visually display the damaged regions before it redraws them. You do this (the location has changed in version 2.9) by going into the method
WorldState displayWorld:submorphs:
Change false to true on the line which reads
false ifTrue: [...]
Dan suggested in a list email that this can be used to notice the source of drawing performance problems.
Q: How do you interrupt a running system in Morphic to be able to get at the code behind? (In MVC you could just Control-. to break what was happening and browse around with the debugger, and I am not sure the best way to do this in Morphic).
A: Do the same thing in Morphic.
Question August 22, 2004 Trying to figure out what is causing Squeak to hang in my image.
Question Ned Konz Try this:
- Open a ProcessBrowser from the World debug menu and verify that there is only one UI process running (this will be at priority 40). The list should look something like this in 3.6:
(80) 1549 the timer interrupt watcher
(60) 2900 the I/O process
(60) 3434 the low space watcher
(60) 892 the user interrupt watcher
(50) 2948 the WeakArray finalization process
(40) 4089 the UI process
(10) 1146 the idle process
If there are more processes running, one of these could be causing the problem.
- Open a Workspace. Type in the following, select it all, and choose "do it" from the context menu:
Transcript open.
Utilities cleanseOtherworldlySteppers.
Transcript cr; flush.
If you see anything printed, it means that there were morphs that were deleted but still stepping.
